June 18, 2014 · 3:15PM

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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS – Before we can get to the NBA Draft and the future of the league and guys like Joel Embiid, Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker, we have to talk about those players and teams dominating the league in the here and now.

The San Antonio Spurs are on top of the basketball world right now, and rightfully so after blasting the Miami Heat off the court in the final three games of The Finals.

The results put the futures of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh into question (at least as a trio), while solidifying the legacies of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Gregg Popovich in the annals as some of the best we’ve seen in their respective roles and positions.

Episode 165 of the Hang Time Podcast provides us with an opportunity to review what we saw in The Finals in both San Antonio and Miami (where the first annual Hang Time Pigcast, thanks to Genesis Rodriguez and family, was a rousing success) and to preview what’s to come in the Draft and beyond with NBA.com’s Draft Yoda, our main man Scott Howard-Cooper.

Who are the Draft’s risers and fallers? Who goes No. 1? And is there a franchise savior among the bunch? We answer all of those questions and more, along with some drowsy analysis from a certain someone who decided an all-night drive to Las Vegas to clear his mind after The Finals was the only way to deal with what lies ahead this summer.

You get all of that and more on Episode 165 of the Hang Time Podcast featuring Scott Howard-Cooper …

June 12, 2014 · 8:34PM

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MIAMI — Didn’t see it coming.

None of us did.

Not like this.

Not from the San Antonio Spurs or the Miami Heat.

Not like this.

In the span of eight quarters the Spurs took the Finals and flipped it upside down and inside out, pushing their lead to 3-1 after Thursday night’s 107-86 thrashing of the Heat at AmericanAirlines Arena. The best road team in the NBA this season showed themselves to be every bit of the juggernaut away from home that their record indicates they should be.

All that’s left is the close out. It could come as early as Sunday night in San Antonio, provided the Spurs keep this up. No team has ever come back from a 3-1 deficit in The Finals (0-31). No team has won consecutive road games by 15 or more points in The Finals … until now.

June 3, 2014 · 4:46PM

HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS –Timmay or the King?

The ultimate team or the ultimate collection of talent?

Pop or Spo?

The seemingly ageless or the new age?

All of those questions will be answered because those forces will be at work during The Finals, which kicks off Thursday in San Antonio, when the Spurs and two-time defending champion Miami Heat will get their rematch on for the Larry O’Brien trophy.

Who wins this battle of wills, this clash of NBA titans?

Tim Duncan says he and his Spurs are going to do it this time. LeBron James and his Heat say bring it, they are ready.

We couldn’t just wait and let things play out naturally. We had to debate the merits of both championship outfits and weigh in with our own predictions. And you can find them, and more, on Episode 163 of the Hang Time Podcast … The Finals preview. Legacies are on the line for the nearly dozen future Hall of Famers, players and coaches, involved in this series.

But not everyone will be able to call 2014 their year.

So who’s it going to be? Who rides off into the sunset atop the basketball world this season?

Tune into Episode 163 of the Hang Time Podcast … The Finals preview and find out:

January 16, 2013 · 8:39PM

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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS – The centennial edition of The Hang Time Podcast was bound to be our biggest and best effort to date.

It had to be, given the star-studded guest list headlined by TNT’s Emmy Award-winning crew from The Inside set, masters Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and the Hall of Famer, Charles Barkley. With an opening assist from the great Ernie Johnson and a visit from the longtime radio voice of the Atlanta Hawks, Steve Holman, who was celebrating his 2,000 consecutive broadcast, we made sure to celebrate 100 right here at headquarters.

Dozens of current and former NBA players, current stars and living legends, have made appearances on the show in the first 100 episodes. We’ve talked to a little bit of everybody, from comedian extraordinaire Charlie Murphy to NBA Commissioner David Stern, Hollywood up-and-comer Genesis Rodriguez to comedic wiz Chelsea Peretti.

About the only guys we hadn’t spoken to yet were Shaq, Kenny and Charles … until now!

Listen in on Episode 100 of the Hang Time Podcast and party with us while we keep it 100!

(Big ups to Vince Thomas of The Shadow League, our former super producer Micah Hart for hatching the podcast with me from the start and the NBA TV and NBA Digital brain trust of Rusty Mintz, Tony Lamb, Steve “The Boss Man” Quintana, John Donovan, Kevin McCormack, Beau Estes our former internTori Carmenfor helping nurse the show from its infancy into the full-blown ball of hoops chaos that we’ve grown into.)

March 30, 2012 · 8:04PM

HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS – It’s taken us a while to recover from All-Star Weekend, fine a month, but we’re finally back.

And we’re back with a vengeance, with Final Four weekend on hand and a Hollywood star and die-hard Heat fan in the fold, we couldn’t go wrong with Episode 72 of the Hang Time Podcast featuring Genesis Rodriguez and Chris Dortch.

Dortch, NBA.com and NBA TV’s college basketball guru, is in New Orleans for the Final Four and helps break down all of the NBA prospects playing this weekend as well as the collegiate stars (Austin Rivers, Harrison Barnes, John Henson, etc.) who have already declared for the June NBA Draft.

Rodriguez, born and raised in Miami on the Heat, has her sights set on The Finals finishing in her hometown again this year. But this time, on a much better note for the home team. She is living and working in Los Angeles now, starring alongside Will Ferrell in his new comedy Casa de mi Padre.